Peace

Ooooh, you're a Yankees fan. No wonder you're so sore. Boy you guys are in trouble now with your top two pitchers in the s--ter. Funny how after getting crushed, all the Yankees fans got real quiet. Yes, you're right, you can do anything with baseball on in the background and miss nothing. What an endorsement! On to actual baseball talk. I wonder if Cliff Lee will repeat his 2009 WS Game 1 performance tonight. Let's hope so.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. Your sample size of you and your friends is underwhelming in view of the actual facts. Turns out I was wrong too: Even in cities with teams in the MLB playoffs, football outdrew baseball. Ouch...MLB interest is worse than I could ever have guessed. Watch out MLB, soccer is on your heels. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2010-10-12-nfl-beats-mlb-ratings_N.htm

No one cares except people in the cities still in it. NFL regular season games beat baseball playoffs.

Giants played great last night. Phillies played well too--it's not like Halladay was terrible. I hope the rest of the series is like last night but with the score reversed.

No, that's the opposite of the point. Posters who insult people's livelihoods while hiding behind anonymous usernames step over a line. They should know better. Sully is The Chimp. Mission accomplished!

But come on: Insulting John's name and work is just how things are. Give us the same privilege.

At the same time, if they are brave enough to, the personal attacks are then out there for google to index, the criticisms of their work are there for employers to review. I post under a different name because I don't trust people to be civil. John posted under his own to lend credibility to his posts and let people know he was a regular guy. (And interact with more people who would then buy him a drink at a bar.) He now chooses to leave for whatever reason. If you want to eff with "Peace," feel free to do so. If you want to eff with my actual name and job, it's a whole different thing. Differentiating between the two is important.

Please respond in this thread by posting your name, job, and workplace.

In this case John W didn't cause the drama. JohnC started this thread. As far as the drama between John W and "The chimp," I didn't see it and don't care to find it. Something happened. John took off. Maybe he'll be back. I don't see him feeding a drama loop. Is the tone of message boards different than real life? Yes. It would be great if people would police their behavior on the web like they do in public but they ("I") don't. The only way to keep a board clear of moronic posters is to start a draconian post/user deletion policy. That would both be a lot of work for our unpaid mods and also take away from the good that comes from frank and open discussion. Unlike most social networks in real life where a group can ostracize a member and the member then usually changes or leaves, that can't happen here unless the software changes dramatically.

If you read stories about the Bills or Sabers, you have read him.

I love your post for "collage" and that you're in Anchorage calling Texas a god forsaken place. On to the actual point though: I agree 100% with the premise both by you and Chef Jim that you can succeed with skills you don't learn in college. I'd rather have 100 mechanics than 100 communications majors. And 100 carpenters than 100 poly sci majors. I am a firm believer in college education, but students need to pick their majors wisely. It's not easy to make a long-term career influencing decision at 18, and even harder to pick a major that will require more work than the soft English major, but that's what most students need to do at 18. And those that pick the soft majors will not have an easy route through jobland. Look, I love English. I read classic literature all the time. But I can absorb that on my own, outside the walls of a 50K/year university. If you're going to college, it's a means to an end: The end is most likely a job and possibly a career. Pick a major that gets you there. Or if you want to study 20th century American literature because it's a passion, study it once you have your career....because there are no 20th century Am lit careers. (That's not me putting down liberal arts...they are a trove of wonder but they don't qualify you for much in a job hunt.) Colleges aren't failing kids when it comes to finding jobs. Kids and maybe parents who pay but don't force their kids to practical majors are failing kids.

Press relations. Communications. Poly Sci. English. Next resume.

Pro Bowler. Good one. No one will miss Poz.

I have info on the injury from an inside source: He was attacked by leeches and sucked.

Enjoy watching him and knowing you've got an 80% chance of seeing him in pin stripes next year!

This "defensive" medicine idea is both a problem and not. I am for reasonable tort reform but the idea of defensive medicine is not 100% bad and wasteful. I don't mind taking a few extra tests to rule out some of the higher probability causes for my visit. That's probably the result of "defensive medicine" but IMO, it's probably also good medicine. The trial lawyers moved doctors off a confident and lazy center so that they try harder to dot all their "i"s now. But of course, the trial attorneys moved things too far: The doctor who's sued because he didn't run the test that 999/1000 doctors also would not have run should not be liable for dick. Having a conversation with you is nearly impossible. You seem to possess a brain but don't use it to dialog--you'd rather just scream and yell. You feel the hint of an argument and start flailing around with the club. My post didn't attack or condescend to you in any way and in fact, as I said two times above, I AGREE with you. My point was that you easily make this about trial lawyers when they are merely one contributing factor. And how about another factor being that the majority of Americans treat their bodies like total and complete crap? Could that have anything to do with rising health costs? Didn't see that on your list but that combined with a sense of entitlement that every malady someone feels entitles them to an ER or doctor's visit puts a huge burden on our system. See if you can keep your response in the zip code of civil. It actually might help dialog and make this place just that much better.

Lee is part owner of the Yankees. They are lucky not to face him.

It's discussed in the article here: http://washingtonindependent.com/55535/tort-reform-unlikely-to-cut-health-care-costs A perfect analysis? Not at all. But tort reform is not likely to change as much about spiraliing costs of healthcare as people would like to think. It's an easy target to demonize med-mal vipers but they are just one of the factors driving up the cost and it doesnt' look like they are anywhere near the biggest. To cherry pick your last post, I agree with building more incentives into healthcare to reward or give incentives to healthy living. Right now, I get a pittance from Blue Cross for going to the gym ($150 per year for 120 health club visits). That's pretty crappy.

I have observed your way of arguing and you cannot admit when you're wrong but maybe you can see your way to being wrong on this. And I support the idea of tort reform. But tort reform won't fix all that much.

You only need FAA permission if the balloon: (i) Carries a payload package that weighs more than four pounds and has a weight/size ratio of more than three ounces per square inch on any surface of the package, determined by dividing the total weight in ounces of the payload package by the area in square inches of its smallest surface; (ii) Carries a payload package that weighs more than six pounds; (iii) Carries a payload, of two or more packages, that weighs more than 12 pounds; or (iv) Uses a rope or other device for suspension of the payload that requires an impact force of more than 50 pounds to separate the suspended payload from the balloon. For the usual high atmosphere balloon flights, the payload weighs almost nothing: just a GPS transmitter (for retrieval), a camera (for cool photos), and batteries. Here are the guys I looked to when I considered doing this a few years ago: http://www.natrium42.com/halo/flight2/

Run with the crowd. Follow not lead. You are the perfect Yankees lemming.

You jumped from the Phillies who you rooted for to the Yankees because the Yankees are better. CONFIRMED. When you switch the team you root for because one sucks and the other is better, it's bandwagon jumping. CONFIRMED. JSP is a bandwagon fan. CONFIRMED. As a football fan, WWJSPD? Root for the Pats.

There are youtube videos and websites dedicated to the high atmosphere amateur balloons. People do it a lot. It's cool every time and every one is serious and takes a fair amount of work.

You ditched the Phillies because of Ed Wade but stick with Ralph Wilson and the Bills. Yeah, that makes sense "fan."

People have been doing this for several years. There are a lot of websites dedicated to how to do it.